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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by teeray on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:44AM (#41708316)
The real question is: why haven't OS manufacturers (okay, namely iOS), recognized that there is spam in texts and bring the same mechanisms we have to fight spam in email? Why can't I simply create a keyword filter for all of the current political candidates' names and auto-delete any campaign texts?
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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by samuelg123 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:58AM (#41708515)
iOS exposes an API for this

Here’s a local keyword filtering app that works great: https://github.com/afterxleep/Bouncer

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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by elboru on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:24AM (#41709632)
I use Bouncer, but this should be a functionality given by iOS, I don't feel comfortable giving a third party app access to read my messages.
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Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? by sodality2 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:32PM (#41710684)
It doesn't give the app access to read your messages. The MessageFilter extension that actually handles filtering cannot communicate with any other part of the code nor the network.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sms_and_call_repor...

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